1. An Integrated Proteomic and Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals the Venom Complexity of the Bullet Ant Paraponera clavata
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Samuel D. Robinson, Pierre Escoubas, Graham M. Nicholson, Regan J. Hayward, Sandy S. Pineda, Samira R. Aili, Axel Touchard, Garry S. A. Myers, Matthew P. Padula, R. Manjunatha Kini, Hadrien Lalagüe, Mrinalini, Eivind A. B. Undheim, Irina Vetter, Ecologie des forêts de Guyane (UMR ECOFOG), and Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-AgroParisTech-Université de Guyane (UG)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université des Antilles (UA)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)
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Proteomics ,Proteome ,Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis ,lcsh:Medicine ,Hyaluronidase ,Shotgun ,Venom ,Peptide ,Toxicology ,Tandem mass spectrometry ,Paraponera clavata ,Tandem Mass Spectrometry ,Ganglia, Spinal ,Databases, Genetic ,DRG neurons ,Cells, Cultured ,Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid ,chemistry.chemical_classification ,0303 health sciences ,Chromatography, Reverse-Phase ,030302 biochemistry & molecular biology ,0601 Biochemistry and Cell Biology, 1115 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences ,Paraponeritoxin ,3. Good health ,Phospholipases ,[SDE]Environmental Sciences ,Insect Proteins ,neurotoxins ,Computational biology ,Biology ,Ant venom ,complex mixtures ,Article ,03 medical and health sciences ,medicine ,Animals ,030304 developmental biology ,Sequence database ,Ant Venoms ,Ants ,Gene Expression Profiling ,lcsh:R ,Eurotoxins ,medicine.disease ,biology.organism_classification ,Mice, Inbred C57BL ,chemistry ,RP-HPLC ,Calcium ,Transcriptome ,Function (biology) - Abstract
A critical hurdle in ant venom proteomic investigations is the lack of databases to comprehensively and specifically identify the sequence and function of venom proteins and peptides. To resolve this, we used venom gland transcriptomics to generate a sequence database that was used to assign the tandem mass spectrometry (MS) fragmentation spectra of venom peptides and proteins to specific transcripts. This was performed alongside a shotgun liquid chromatography&ndash, mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) analysis of the venom to confirm that these assigned transcripts were expressed as proteins. Through the combined transcriptomic and proteomic investigation of Paraponera clavata venom, we identified four times the number of proteins previously identified using 2D-PAGE alone. In addition to this, by mining the transcriptomic data, we identified several novel peptide sequences for future pharmacological investigations, some of which conform with inhibitor cysteine knot motifs. These types of peptides have the potential to be developed into pharmaceutical or bioinsecticide peptides.
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- 2020
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